2024 Community Kick-Off!

January 18 we will kick 2024 off!

The format will be the similar to previous meetups with three speakers and a moderated Q&A session.

Event Program

- Doors open at 17:00 CET

- Talks begin at 17:45 CET

- Pizzas from our favorite pizzeria Deglabbet arrive 19:00 CET

- And there will be beers courtesy local brewery magicians Omnipollo... (and non-alcoholic options)

This evening, we will hear from:

- Rebecka Storm, Co-Founder of Twirl who will give a talk titled "The power of combining analytics and ML on one platform" which will focus on the fact that analytics and ML often live in separate worlds: analytics happens in SQL and dashboards, and ML in Python and notebooks. However, combining them both in one platform brings many benefits. Building a platform that can work well for both isn’t easy though. Rebecka will speak about some approaches she's seen, some tricks on how to avoid analysts and ML engineers getting in each others’ way and what Twirl is doing to bridge the gap between these two fields.

- Anna Maria Modée, Senior Solution Architect at Elastic who will give a talk titled "Generative AI & Elastic observability" which will address the fact that search is not just traditional TF/IDF any more but the current trend of machine learning and models has opened another dimension for search. This talk gives an overview of:
- "Classic" search and its limitations
- What is a model and how can you use it
- How to use vector search or hybrid search in Elasticsearch
- Where ChatGPT or similar LLMs come into play to with Elastic

- Francesca Carminati, AI/ML Engineer at King who will give a talk titled "Technical Debt in ML Systems." Description of the talk: Maintaining Machine Learning systems can be difficult and costly because they often end up with large amount of technical debt. In this presentation we will discuss the reasons why ML systems are more likely to have this type of debt and three sources of technical debt in ML systems.

The Q&A session will be moderated by Saroosh Shabbir, AI Scientist at Silo AI.

Once again, we will have the great fortune of gathering at Combient's beautiful office at Mäster Samuelsgatan 56 (Floor 3).

See you all there!

All the best,

Patrick